Deep-sky object
Carina Nebula
Carina Nebula is an emission nebula 8 500 light-years away, in Carina, about 300 light-years across, seen as it was 8 500 years ago.
Four times the size of the Orion Nebula and brighter, home to Eta Carinae and some of the heaviest stars known; the south's great nebula.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Type
- emission nebula
- Constellation
- Carina
- Distance
- 8 500 light-years
- Size
- about 300 light-years across
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 1.0
- Catalogue
- NGC 3372
See it from here
Bright enough to see with your own eyes from a dark place.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a soft glow in the manner of its kind at its measured distance, as wide as it measures; the pattern in it is illustrative and its true shape is not drawn — the kind of thing, not this exact one.